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I always wonder why guys like Belew get trashed when they tread over old ground, yet guys like B.B. King more or less did the exact same thing their entire career and are heralded as gods. Also, this is but a tiny bit about what Adrian's been up to. Download the free "Ghosts I-IV" by NIN and he's all over that and sounds nothing at all like the stuff off Side 1. http://ghosts.nin.com/main/home On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 9:04 PM, Teddy Kumpel<teddybut@mac.com> wrote: > hmmm... it was original the first time he did it... but now he's done it >too > many times... too many copycats... agreed... but, the fact stands that he > invented a ton of techniques on the guitar that a lot of people learned > from. Maybe he's finished innovating but that's no reason to put him in a > museum. He's still alive for god's sakes... aren't museums for dead >things? > > Teddy > > > On Jul 26, 2009, at 6:29 PM, Krispen Hartung wrote: > >> Well, I thought I was going to sneak in and get out, but apparently, the >> LD blackhole has me hooked again! :) Here we go again. :) >> >> Of cource, what I said is odd. Some wouldn't expect otherwise. It was >> partly in jest. I'd say the same thing about traditional jazz, country, >or >> any past genre. The thing is, you can probabl find this style of >music and >> other prior genres in museums of music, mainly because, well....it's >> history. There is nothing wrong with that. I appreciate it and think >people >> should still play it. I even play it once in a while. I think it needs >to >> be preserved, so that people can see history in action in the current >times. >> Is it novel, innovative and earth breaking? No. But that is another >matter >> and discussion all together. I think people should continue to play >music >> like this, in the same way I think people should study history and >learned >> what has been done before. >> >> Kris >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Krispen >> Hartung<info@krispenhartung.com> wrote: >>> >>> They all appear >>> to be great musicians, but perhaps the music should be in a museum? >They >>> are great curators. :) >> >> >> That just strikes me as an incredibly odd thing to say about music and >> the musicians playing it. Put the music in a museum? I didn't know >> this stuff had a sell by date (some recording techniques, sure). I >> guess in that case most blues, jazz, classical and so on should be put >> away to leave room for the fresh music of today. >> >> My appreciation of music is always changing, what sounds boring one >> day can inspire me the next. What I loved yesterday can seem dull and >> lifeless a few days later, only to come back full on the next year. >> >> Anyhow, that just seemed like an odd perspective to me. >> >> The worst part of that show to me is the editing (hey let's try to >> make it as frenetic as possible). >> >> Kevin >> -- >> Till now you seriously considered yourself to be the body and to have a >> form. That is the primal ignorance which is the root cause of all >trouble. >> >> - Ramana Maharshi (1879-1950) >> >> Sound and Vision: http://www.minds-eye.org NEW SITE 3/01/09 >> >> > > Teddy > -- > PS. > -- > http://teddyjam.com > new live recordings, always > -- > http://myspace.com/teddykjam > friend me > -- > >